The United Methodists are not my cup of tea. But I have to admit they are not going to Gehenna quite as
fast as the “mainline” Presbyterians and Episcopalians. Hey, I give credit where credit is due.
Yes, I am unusually magnanimous this morning. So here’s some friendly advice for the United Methodists –
close your D. C. office post haste.
The world’s
lone Jewish state must be singled out for punitive divestment campaigns, while
we should at the same time promote economic investment in North Korea, whose
government has done absolutely nothing in the area of human rights worthy of
specific criticism. And we should take our
broad support for sex outside of marriage one step further by advocating to
legalize prostitution.
This was the
moral vision offered by our United Methodist Church’s apportionment-funded D.C.
lobby office, the General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) at its Spring 2015
board of directors meeting.
I will spare the sordid details.
I will just say decades ago, an important factor that pushed me out of
the “mainline” Presbyterian Church were its outrageous public policy
pronouncements. At the very least,
they alerted me that something was very wrong with my denomination.
One of the surest ways to shrink your church is to issue poison such as
that coming from the UM’s Washington office.
Methodists, you know what to do.
Close it. Now.
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A hat tip to Christopher Johnson, whose title captures what the D. C.
Office is doing to the United Methodist Church.
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